Excavation contractors · South Dakota

Plains Utilities & Excavating

Sioux Falls, SD · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plains Utilities & Excavating runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Plains Utilities & Excavating: 2.5 TCR = 88% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plains Utilities & Excavating safety composite

Plains Utilities & Excavating scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Plains Utilities & Excavating: 0.0 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Plains Utilities & Excavating's TCR rose 9.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 9.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Sioux Falls, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO JR Industrial, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JR Industrial, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plains Utilities & Excavating in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Plains Utilities & Excavating averages 2.5 TCR (88% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Plains Utilities & Excavating TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Plains Utilities & Excavating falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Excavation contractors employers in South Dakota.

Plains Utilities & Excavating (18 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Plains Utilities & Excavating
Plains Utilities & Excavating (18 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Plains Utilities & Excavating has fewer employees than the Excavation contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 9.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · SD · Sioux Falls

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR JR Industrial, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR G. M. White Construction, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milherst Construction, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Range Construction Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS Global - Sioux Falls 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie AquaTech dba Houdek 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roscoe 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Platte 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR Koch Filter 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR R&S Maintenance Services 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 5109 Ne 82 Ave 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Marbach America Inc Michigan City 2.5 TCR

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.